Inadequate staffing in Tasmania’s aged care sector

Cut exposure to chemicals to ward off diabetes in the elderly

Cutting exposure to common environmental synthetic chemicals by 25 per cent might ward off more than 150,000 cases of diabetes in Europe suggest estimates published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Older age no barrier to fatherhood?

Can the bacteria in our gut affect our weight?

Our gut does more than help us digest food; the bacteria that call our intestines home have been implicated in everything from our mental health and sleep, to weight gain and cravings for certain foods.

Prostate cancer treatment breakthrough

Scientists have made a breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, by piggy backing a chemotherapy drug onto a well-known milk protein to create a combination that is lethal for cancer cells without the toxic side-effects.